The 7th William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Conference
                      August 30-September 3, 2011
  The Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College Dublin
                            on
  The Geometry and Dynamics of Teichmüller Spaces

Sponsors: Boston College, the Hamilton Mathematics Institute and the
National Science Foundation.

Organizing Committee: Javier Aramayona (NUI, Galway), Tom Brady (DCU),
Martin Bridgeman (Boston College),  Martin Bridson (Oxford), Tao Li
(Boston College), Dmitri Zaitsev (TCD)

Workshop website: http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/gt/gt2011.htm

This is the first announcement for the 7th William Rowan Hamilton
Geometry and Topology Workshop to be held a the Hamilton Mathematics
Institute (HMI), in Trinity College Dublin Ireland. This year, the
workshop will expand to include a mini-course August 30-31, followed
by the regular three day lecture series Thursday, September 1st,
through Saturday, September 3th, 2011.

This year's topic for the workshop is The Geometry and Dynamics of
Teichmüller Spaces.

Funding and Sponsors:
The workshop is co-sponsored by Boston College, the HMI and the NSF.
Funding is available for graduate students and junior researchers
wishing to attend the mini-course and workshop. A limited amount of
funding is also available for both junior and senior researchers
wishing to attend the workshop. If you would like to request travel
support you can do so on the workshop website at
http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/gt/gt2011/register.htm

Minicourse:
The minicourse will run August 30-31 and consist of a two-day series
of lectures and discussions on Teichmüller theory given by Jeff Brock
and Howie Masur. The target audience is graduate students and junior
researchers.


Lecture Series
The lecture series will be September 1-3 and consist of a series of 1
hour talks by the below speakers. There will also be scheduled
discussion and problem sessions.

Speakers:
Mladen Bestvina (Utah)
Jeff Brock (Brown)
Ken Bromberg (Utah)
David Dumas (Illinois, Chicago)
Alex Eskin* (Chicago)
Bill Goldman (Maryland)
Steve Kerckhoff (Stanford)
Francois Labourie* (Orsay)
Chris Leininger (Urbana-Champaign)
Howie Masur (Chicago)
Alexandra Pettet (Oxford)
Kasra Rafi (Oklahoma)
Corinna Ulcigrai (Bristol)
Scott Wolpert (Maryland)

*to be confirmed

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